# List of compositions by Francis Poulenc

This is a list of works written by the French composer Francis Poulenc (1899–1963).
As a pianist, Poulenc composed many pieces for his own instrument in his piano music and chamber music. He wrote works for orchestra including several concertos, also three operas, two ballets, incidental music for plays and film music. He composed songs (mélodies), often on texts by contemporary authors. His religious music includes the Mass in G major, the Stabat Mater and Gloria.

## Overview

The composer had written a catalogue of his works in 1921, which is reproduced in Schmidt's book. According to this list, the first noted piece was in 1914 Processional pour la crémation d'un mandarin for piano, now lost or destroyed. Poulenc completed his last work, his Oboe Sonata, in 1962.
Piano, chamber music and songs
As a professional pianist, Poulenc wrote many pieces for his own instrument. He was a prolific writer of works of chamber music, often with piano, and some works for two pianos. Poulenc composed many songs (mélodies), most of them accompanied by piano, but some also in versions with a small instrumental ensembles, for example his Rapsodie nègre for baritone, flute, clarinet, string quartet and piano. He composed easily for woodwind instruments, scoring for example a piano trio with oboe and bassoon instead of the traditional violin and cello. Poulenc was less familiar with string instruments. The cellist Pierre Fournier helped him to write the Cello Sonata, which he premiered with the composer as the pianist. Poulenc destroyed all sketches for string quartets and three for violin sonatas, while only the fourth one survived, but was received critically.
Orchestra and stage
Among his works with orchestra are three operas, two ballet, incidental music for plays, film music and concertos, some with unusual solo instruments such as harpsichord and organ. The harpsichordist Wanda Landowska inspired the composition of the Concert champêtre.
Collaboration in the group Les Six
Poulenc was a member of the group of composers Les Six, with Georges Auric, Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud and Germaine Tailleferre, and contributed to their collective productions, which included another ballet.
Sacred music and choral music
Poulenc turned to writing also religious music in the 1930s, composing a Mass in G major for a cappella choir. He composed the Stabat Mater in 1950 in memory of the painter Christian Bérard in 1950. The late Gloria for soprano, choir and orchestra became one of his best-known works. He drew inspiration for his sacred compositions mostly from liturgical texts.
Songs
For his songs and song cycles, he often collaborated with contemporary poets, setting poems by writers such as Guillaume Apollinaire, Louis Aragon, Paul Éluard, Max Jacob, Federico García Lorca, and Louise de Vilmorin, whom he mentioned in titles. He further set poems by Théodore de Banville, Maurice Carême, Colette, Robert Desnos, Maurice Fombeure, Marie Laurencin, Madeleine Ley, François de Malherbe, Ronsard, Jean Moréas, Jean Nohain and Paul Valéry, among others. In 1943, during the occupation of France, a cantata Figure humaine on poems by Éluard which celebrate Liberté.

## List of works by FP number

The Music of Francis Poulenc (1899–1963): A Catalogue, abbreviated FP, is a chronological catalogue of Francis Poulenc's works which was published by Carl B. Schmidt in 1995. Schmidt provides for each known composition, which includes unfinished, unpublished and lost works, a detailed history of composition and performance, and lists manuscripts and publications.
In the table, the works are initially listed by the FP number. Other information given is the French title, a translation if commonly used, the key, the scoring if not clear from the title, the year(s) of composition, the genre, text information, notes and a free score when available, and the page number in the catalogue. Abbreviations used are "rev." for "revised", "orch." for "orchestration", arr. for "arrangement" and "sc." for "score".
In Genre, instrumental pieces are distinguished as orchestral and chamber music, particularly that for piano. The group of stage works contains operas, ballets and incidental music, while film scores are marked separately. Sacred and secular music for voice is divided in choral, for cantatas and motets, and vocal, holding songs and song cycles.
| FP | Year | Title | Genre | Scoring | Text | Notes |
| 1 | 1914 | Processional pour la crémation d'un mandarin | piano | | | destroyed or lost p. 11 |
| 2 | 1916 | Préludes | piano | | | destroyed |
| 3 | 1917 (rev. 1933) | Rapsodie nègre | vocal | baritonefluteclarinetstring quartetpiano | Makoko Kangourou (Marcel Prouille and Charles Moulié) | sc. |
| 4 | 1917 | Scherzo for two pianos Zèbre | piano | | | destroyed or lost (fragment) |
| 5 | 1918 | Trois Pastorales | piano | | | |
| 6 | 1918 | Poème sénégalais | vocal | voicestring quartet | | destroyed or lost |
| 7 | 1919 | Sonata for two clarinets | chamber | | | dedicated to Édouard Souberbielle · sc. |
| 7b | 1925 | Sonata | piano | | | piano version of FP 7 |
| 8 | 1918 (rev. 1939) | Sonata for piano 4 hands | piano | | | dedicated to Simone Tilliard · sc. |
| 9 | 1918 | Prélude-Percussion | solo | percussion | | destroyed or lost |
| 10 | 1918 | Le Jongleur | piano | | | destroyed or lost |
| 11 | 1918 (rev. 1932) | Toréador chanson hispano-italienne | vocal | voicepiano | Jean Cocteau | sc. |
| 12 | 1918 | Violin Sonata | chamber | | | destroyed or lost |
| 13 | 1918 | Sonata for piano trio | chamber | | | destroyed or lost |
| 14a | 1918 (rev. 1939, 1962) | Trois mouvements perpétuels | piano | | | sc. · p. 32 |
| 14b | 1925 (rev. 1939, 1962) | Trois mouvements perpétuels | chamber | fluteoboeclarinetbassoonfrench hornviolinviolacellodouble bass | | arr. of FP 14a |
| 15a | 1919 | Le Bestiaire (ou Cortège d’Orphée) "Le Dromadaire""La Chèvre du Tibet""La Sauterelle""Le Dauphin""L’Écrevisse""La Carpe" | vocal | baritonepiano | Guillaume Apollinaire | sc. |
| 15b | 1922 | Le Bestiaire (ou Cortège d’Orphée) | vocal | baritonefluteclarinetbassoonstring quartet | | arr. of FP 15a |
| 16a | 1919 | Cocardes Miel de NarbonneBonne d'enfantEnfant de troupe | vocal | sopranopiano | Cocteau | dedicated to Auric · sc. |
| 16b | 1939 | Cocardes | vocal | sopranoviolincornettrombonegrosse caissetriangle | | arr. of FP 16a |
| 17a | 1919 | Valse in C | piano | | | part of L'Album des Six · sc. |
| 17b | 1932 | Valse in C | orchestral | | | orch. of FP 17a |
| 18 | 1919 | Quadrille for piano 4 hands | piano | | | lost or destroyed |
| 19 | 1920 (rev. 1926) | Piano Suite | piano | | | sc. |
| 20a | 1920–21 | Le Gendarme incompris | stage (opera) | 3 voicesensemble | Cocteau and Raymond Radiguet | lyric comedy in one act |
| 20b | 1921 | Le Gendarme incompris (suite) | chamber | clarinettrumpettrombonepercussionviolincellodouble bass | | sc. |
| 21 | 1920–21 | 5 Impromptus | piano | | | sc. |
| 22 | 1921 | Quatre poèmes de Max Jacob Est-il un coin plus solitaire...C'est pour aller au balPoète et TénorDans le buisson de mimosa | vocal | voicewind quintet | Max Jacob | dedicated to Darius Milhaud |
| 23/1 | 1921 | La baigneuse de Trouville (Carte Postale en couleurs) | stage (ballet) | orchestra | | part of the collaborative Les mariés de la tour Eiffel, ballet by Cocteau |
| 23/2 | 1921 | Discours du Général (Polka) | stage (ballet) | orchestra | | part of the collaborative Les mariés de la tour Eiffel, ballet by Cocteau |
| 24 | 1921 (rev. 1952) | Promenades | piano | | | sc. |
| 25 | 1921 | Esquisse pour une fanfare | orchestral | | | sc., overture for Act V of Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet |
| 26 | 1921 | 3 Etudes for pianola | piano | | | lost or destroyed |
| 27 | 1921 | Première suite d'orchestre | orchestral | | | lost or destroyed |
| 28 | 1921 | String Quartet no. 1 | chamber | | | lost or destroyed |
| 29 | 1921 | Trio for piano, clarinet and cello | chamber | | | lost or destroyed |
| 30 | 1921 | Military marches for piano and orchestra | orchestral | | | lost or destroyed (fragments) |
| 31 | 1922 | Chanson à boire | choral | men's choir | anonymous texts of the 17th century, English by J. V. Hugo | sc. |
| 32a | 1922 | Sonata for clarinet and bassoon | chamber | | | sc. |
| 32b | 1945 | Sonata | piano | | | piano version of FP 32a |
| 33a | 1922 | Sonata for horn, trumpet and trombone | chamber | | | |
| 33b | 1945 | Sonata | piano | | | piano version of FP 33a |
| 34 | 1922 | Caprice espagnol | piano | | | lost or destroyed |
| 35 | 1923 | La colombe | stage (opera) | | | recitatives for Charles Gounod's opera |
| 36 | 1922 | Les biches | stage (ballet) | | | sc. |
| 36b | 1939–40 | Les biches (Suite) | orchestral | | | from FP 36a |
| 36c | 1923 | Les biches (Suite) | orchestral | | | from FP 36 |
| 37 | 1923 | Clarinet Quintet | chamber | | | lost or destroyed |
| 38a | 1924–25 | Poèmes de Pierre Ronsard AttributsLe TombeauBalletJe n’ai plus que les osÀ son page | vocal | voicepiano | Pierre Ronsard | sc. |
| 38b | 1924–25 | Poèmes de Pierre Ronsard | vocal | voiceorchestra | | orch. of 38a |
| 39 | 1924–25 | Violin Sonata No. 2 | chamber | | | lost or destroyed |
| 40 | 1922–25 | Napoli | piano | | | sc. |
| 41 | 1925 | Dorfmusikanten-Sextett von Mozart | | | | lost or destroyed |
| 42 | 1925 | Chansons gaillardes La Maîtresse volageChanson à boireMadrigalInvocations aux ParquesCouplets bachiquesL’OffrandeLa Belle jeunesseSérénade | vocal | baritonepiano | | sc. |
| 43 | 1926 | Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano | chamber | | | sc. |
| 44 | 1927 | Vocalise | vocal | voicepiano | | |
| 45 | 1927 | Pastourelle | stage (ballet) | orchestra | | part of the collaborative L'Éventail de Jeanne by ten composers |
| 45b | 1927 | Pastourelle | piano | | | piano version of FP 45a, sc. |
| 46 | 1927–28 | Airs chantés Air romantiqueAir champêtreAir graveAir vif | vocal | voicepiano | Jean Moréas | sc. |
| 47 | 1927–28 (rev. 1939) | Novelettes | piano | | | sc. |
| 48 | 1928 (rev. 1953) | 3 Pieces | piano | | | sc. |
| 49 | 1927–29 | Concert champêtre | orchestral | harpsichordorchestra | | sc. |
| 50a | 1929 | Pièce brève sur le nom d'Albert Roussel | piano | | | No. 3 of the collaborative Hommage à Roussel (2 mélodies and 6 pièces for piano by Conrad Beck, Roger Delage, Arthur Honegger, Arthur Hoérée, Jacques Ibert, Darius Milhaud and Alexandre Tansman) published in addition to the Revue musicale (April 1929) |
| 50b | 1949 | Pièce brève sur le nom d'Albert Roussel | orchestral | | | orch. of FP 50a |
| 51a | 1929 | Aubade, concerto chorégraphique | stage (ballet) | piano18 instruments | | sc |
| 51b | 1929 | Aubade | piano | | | piano version of FP 51a |
| 52 | 1929 | Fanfare | | | | lost or destroyed |
| 53 | 1929 | Valse | piano | | | lost or destroyed |
| 54 | 1929 | Violin Sonata No. 3 | chamber | | | lost or destroyed |
| 55 | 1930 | Épitaphe | vocal | voice (baritone or mezzo-soprano)piano | François de Malherbe | sc. |
| 56 | 1929–30 | 8 Nocturnes | piano | | | sc. |
| 57 | 1931 | Trois poèmes de Louise Lalanne Le PrésentChansonHier | vocal | voice (soprano)piano | Louise Lalanne | sc. |
| 58 | 1931 | Quatre poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire L'AnguilleCarte postaleAvant le cinéma1904 | vocal | voice (baritone or mezzo-soprano)piano | Apollinaire | sc. |
| 59 | 1931 | Cinq poèmes de Max Jacob Chanson bretonneLe CimetièreLa Petite servanteBerceuseSouric et Mouric | vocal | voicepiano | Jacob | sc. |
| 60 | 1932 | Le Bal masqué | vocal | voice (baritone or mezzo-soprano)chamber orchestra | Jacob | composed for Marie-Laure and Charles de Noailles · sc. |
| 60.I | 1932 | Caprice | piano | | | piano version of Final from FP 60 |
| 60.II | 1932 | Intermède | piano | | | from FP 60.I |
| 60.III | 1932 | Bagatelle | chamber | | | excerpts from FP 60.I |
| 61 | 1932 | Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra | orchestral | | | sc. |
| 62 | 1932 | Valse-improvisation sur le nom de BACH | piano | | | No. 3 of the collaborative Hommage à J. S. Bach (with Albert Roussel, Alfredo Casella, Gian Francesco Malipiero and Arthur Honegger), sc. |
| 63 | 1932–34 | 10 Improvisations | piano | | | sc. |
| 64 | 1933 | Intermezzo | stage (incidental) | | | incidental music for Jean Giraudoux's play |
| 65 | 1933 | Villageoises 6 petites pièces enfantines | piano | | | sc. |
| 66 | 1932 | Pierrot | vocal | voicepiano | Théodore de Banville | |
| 67 | 1932 | Petrus | | | | lost or destroyed |
| 68 | 1933 | Feuillets d’album | piano | | | sc. |
| 69 | 1934 | Huit chansons polonaises La CouronneLe DépartLes Gars polonaisLe Dernier MazourL'AdieuLe Drapeau blancLa VistuleLe Lac | vocal | voicepiano | anonymous in French and Polish | sc. |
| 70 | 1934 | Presto in B♭ major | piano | | | dedicated to Vladimir Horowitz · sc. |
| 71 | 1934 | 2 Intermezzi | piano | | | sc. |
| 72 | 1934 | Humoresque | piano | | | |
| 73 | 1934 | Badinage | piano | | | |
| 74 | 1934 | Villanelle | chamber | recorderpiano | | dedicated to Louise Hanson-Dyer |
| 75 | 1934–35 | Quatre chansons pour enfants Nous voulons une petite sœurLa Tragique Histoire du petit RenéLe Petit Garçon trop bien portantMonsieur Sans-souci | vocal | voicepiano | Jean Nohain | |
| 76 | 1936 | La Belle au bois dormant | film | harpsichordwind instrumentsharppercussion | | music for the commercial film by Alexandre Alexeieff |
| 77 | 1935 | Cinq poèmes de Paul Éluard Peut-il se reposer?Il la prend dans ses brasPlume d’eau claireRôdeuse au front de verreAmoureuses | vocal | voicepiano | Paul Éluard | sc. |
| 78 | 1935 | La Reine Margot | stage (incidental)) | voicepiano | | incidental music for Édouard Bourdet's play, in collaboration with Auric |
| 79a | 1935 | À sa guitare | vocal | voicepiano or harp | Ronsard | after FP 78 · sc |
| 79b | 1935 | À sa guitare | vocal | voiceorchestra | | orch. of 79a |
| 80a | 1935 | Suite française d'après Claude Gervaise | chamber | wind instrumentsdrumharpsichord | | sc. |
| 80b | 1935 | Suite française | piano | | | piano version of Fp80a |
| 81 | 1936 | Sept Chansons Blanche NeigeÀ peine défiguréePar une nuit nouvelleTous les droitsBelle et ressemblanteMarieLuire | choral | choir | 1 & 6: Apollinaire; 2–5 & 7: Éluard | sc. |
| 82a | 1936 | Litanies à la Vierge Noire Notre-Dame de Rocamadour | choral | women's (or children's) choirorgan | | sc. |
| 82b | 1947 | Litanies à la Vierge Noire | choral | women's (or children's) choirorchestra (strings and timpani) | | orch. of FP 82a |
| 83 | 1936 | Petites Voix La Petite Fille sageLe Chien perduEn rentrant de l'écoleLe Petit garçon maladeLe Hérisson | choral | 3-part women's (or children's) choir | Madeleine Ley | |
| 84 | 1930–36 | Soirées de Nazelles | piano | | | sc. |
| 85 | 1936 | Plains-chants de Cocteau | vocal | voicepiano | | lost or destroyed |
| 86 | 1936–37 | Tel jour telle nuit Bonne journéeUne ruine coquille videLe Front comme un drapeau perduUne roulotte couverte en tuilesÀ toutes bridesUne herbe pauvreJe n’ai envie que de t’aimerFigure de force brûlante et faroucheNous avons fait la nuit | vocal | voicepiano | Éluard | sc. |
| 87 | 1937 | Bourrée, au pavillon d’Auvergne | piano | | | part of the collaborative À l’exposition, 1937 · sc. |
| 88 | 1937 | Deux marches et un intermède | orchestral | | | sc. |
| 89 | 1937 | Mass in G major | choral | sopranomixed choir | | sc. · p. 288 |
| 90 | 1937 | Sécheresses | choral | mixed choir (SATB)orchestra | Edward James | sc. |
| 91 | 1937 | Trois poèmes de Louise de Vilmorin Le Garçon de LiègeAu-delàAux officiers de la garde blanche | vocal | voicepiano | Louise de Vilmorin | |
| 92 | 1938 | Le Portrait | vocal | voicepiano | Colette | |
| 93 | 1934–38 | Organ Concerto | orchestral | organtimpanistring orchestra | | |
| 94 | 1938 | Deux poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire Dans le jardin d'AnnaAllons plus vite | vocal | voicepiano | Apollinaire | sc. |
| 95 | 1938 | Priez pour paix | vocal | voicepiano | Charles d'Orléans | sc. |
| 96 | 1938 | La Grenouillère | vocal | voicepiano | Apollinaire | sc. |
| 97 | 1938–39 | Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence Timor et tremorVinea mea electaTenebræ factæ suntTristis est anima mea | choral | mixed choir | | sc. · p. 288–292 |
| 98 | 1938–39 | Miroirs brûlants Tu vois le feu du soirJe nommerai ton front | vocal | voicepiano | Éluard | sc. · p. 293–294 |
| 99 | 1939 | Ce doux petit visage | vocal | voicepiano | Éluard | sc. |
| 100 | 1932 (rev. 1939–40) | Sextet | chamber | wind quintetpiano | | sc. |
| 101 | 1939 | Fiançailles pour rire La Dame d’AndréDans l’herbeIl voleMon cadavre est doux comme un gantViolon Fleurs | vocal | voicepiano | Vilmorin | |
| 102 | 1939 | Bleuet | vocal | voicepiano | Apollinaire | |
| 103 | 1939 | Française | piano | | | sc. |
| 104 | 1939 | Deux préludes posthumes et une gnossienne | orchestral | chamber orchestra | | orch. of pieces by Erik Satie |
| 105 | 1940 | Mélancolie | piano | | | sc. |
| 106 | 1940 | Léocadia | stage (incidental) | | | incidental music for Jean Anouilh's play · lost but for FP 106-Ia |
| 106-Ia | 1940 | Les Chemins de l'amour | vocal | voicepiano | Jean Anouilh | sung waltz from FP 106 · sc. |
| 106-Ib | 1940 | Les Chemins de l'amour | vocal | voiceclarinetbassoonviolindouble basspiano | | orch. of FP 106-Ia |
| 107 | 1940 | Banalités Chanson d’OrkeniseHôtelFagnes de WallonieVoyage à ParisSanglots | vocal | voicepiano | Apollinaire | sc. |
| 108 | 1940 | Colloque | vocal | voice (soprano, baritone)piano | Paul Valéry | |
| 109 | 1941 | Exultate Deo | choral | 4-part choir | | sc. |
| 110 | 1941 | Salve Regina | choral | 4-part choir | | sc. |
| 111a | 1940–41 | Les Animaux modèles | stage (ballet) | | | |
| 111b | 1942 | Les Animaux modèles (Suite) | orchestral | | | six movements from FP 111a |
| 112 | 1941 | La Fille du jardinier | stage (incidental) | | | incidental music for Charles Exbrayat's play |
| 113 | 1941 | 2 Improvisations | piano | | | sc. |
| 114 | 1941 | Un joueur de flûte berce les ruines | chamber | flute | | unpublished |
| 115 | 1941 | String Trio | chamber | | | lost or destroyed |
| 116 | 1942 | La Duchesse de Langeais | film | | | music for the film by Jacques de Baroncelli, adapted from Honoré de Balzac's novel by Jean Giraudoux |
| 117a | 1942 | Chansons villageoises Chanson du Clair TamisLes Gars qui vont à la fêteC’est le joli printempsLe MendiantChanson de la fille frivoleLe Retour du sergent | vocal | voicepiano | Maurice Fombeure | |
| 117b | 1942 | Chansons villageoises | vocal | voice (baritone)chamber orchestra | | orch. of FP 117a |
| 118 | 1943 | 3 Intermezzi | piano | | | sc. |
| 119 | 1942–43 (rev. 1949) | Violin Sonata | chamber | | | sc. · p. 330–332 |
| 120 | 1943 | Figure humaine BientôtLe rôle des femmesAussi bas que les silencePatiencePremière marche; la voix d’un autreUn loupUn feu sans tacheLiberté | choral | 12-part choir | Éluard | p. 333–335 |
| 121 | 1943 | Métamorphoses Reine des mouettesC'est ainsi que tu esPaganini | vocal | voicepiano | Vilmorin | |
| 122 | 1943 | Deux poèmes de Louis Aragon CFêtes galantes | vocal | voicepiano | Louis Aragon | |
| 123 | 1943 | Le Voyageur sans bagage | film | | | music for the film by Jean Anouilh |
| 124 | 1944 | La Nuit de la Saint-Jean | stage (incidental) | | | incidental music for the play by J. M. Barrie |
| 125 | 1944 | Les Mamelles de Tirésias | stage (opera) | soloistschoirorchestra | Apollinaire | sc. |
| 126 | 1944 | Un soir de neige Le feuUn loupDerniers instantsDu dehors | choral | 4-6-part mixed choir | Éluard | sc. |
| 127-1 | 1941–45 | Montparnasse | vocal | voicepiano | Apollinaire | |
| 127-2 | 1945 | Hyde Park | vocal | voicepiano | Apollinaire | |
| 128 | 1945 | Le Soldat et la Sorcière | stage (incidental) | | | incidental music for the play by Armand Salacrou |
| 129 | 1940–45 | L'Histoire de Babar, le petit éléphant | vocal | narratorpiano | Jean de Brunhoff | orch. by Jean Françaix, sc. |
| 130 | 1945 | Huit chansons françaises "Margoton va t'a l'iau""La Belle se sied au pied de la tour""Pilons l'orge""Clic, clac, dansez sabots""C'est la petit' fill' du prince""La Belle si nous étions""Ah ! mon beau laboureur""Les Tisserands" | choral | mixed choirmen's choir | | sc. |
| 131 | 1946 | Deux mélodies sur des poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire Le PontUn poème | vocal | voicepiano | Apollinaire | |
| 132 | 1946 | Paul et Virginie | vocal | voicepiano | Raymond Radiguet | sc. |
| 133 | 1946 | String Quartet no. 2 | chamber | | | lost or destroyed |
| 134 | 1947 | Le Disparu | vocal | voicepiano | Robert Desnos | |
| 135 | 1947 | Main dominée par le cœur | vocal | voice (soprano)piano | Éluard | sc. |
| 136 | 1947 | Trois chansons de Federico García Lorca L’Enfant muetAdeline à la promenadeChanson à l’oranger sec | vocal | voicepiano | Federico García Lorca | |
| 137 | 1947 | Mais mourir | vocal | voicepiano | Éluard | |
| 138 | 1947 | L'Invitation au château | stage (incidenal) | | | incidental music for Jean Anouilh's play |
| 139 | 1947 | Amphitryon | stage (incidental) | | | incidental music for Molière's 1668 play for the compagnie Renaud-Barrault at the théâtre Marigny |
| 140 | 1948 | Calligrammes L’EspionneMutationVers le SudIl pleutLa Grâce exiléeAussi bien que les cigalesVoyage | vocal | voicepiano | Apollinaire | |
| 141 | 1947 | Sinfonietta | orchestral | | | sc. |
| 142 | 1948 | Quatre petites prières de saint François d’Assise Salut, dame SainteTout puissant, très saintSeigneur, je vous en prieÔ mes très chers frères | choral | 4-part men's choir | Francis of Assisi | sc. |
| 143 | 1940–48 (rev. 1953) | Cello Sonata | chamber | | | sc. · p. 393–395 |
| 144 | 1947 | Hymne | vocal | voice (bass)piano | Jean Racine | sc. |
| 145 | 1949 | Les Bijoux de poitrine, mazurka | vocal | voicepiano | Vilmorin | part of the collaborative song cycle Les Mouvements du cœur in memory of Frédéric Chopin, with Darius Milhaud, Henri Sauguet, Auric, Jean Françaix and Léon Preger, premiered by bass Doda Conrad |
| 146 | 1949 | Piano Concerto | orchestral | | | sc. |
| 147 | 1950 | La Fraîcheur et le Feu Rayon des yeuxLe matin les branches attisentTout disparutDans les ténèbres du jardinUnis la fraîcheur et le feuHomme au sourire tendreLa Grande rivière qui va | vocal | voicepiano | Éluard | |
| 148 | 1950–51 | Stabat Mater | choral | sopranofive-part choirorchestra | | sc. |
| 149 | 1951 | Le Voyage en Amérique | piano | 2 pianos | | music for the film by Henri Lavorel |
| 150 | 1951 | L'Embarquement pour Cythère | piano | 2 pianos | | Valse musette after FP 149 · sc. |
| 151 | 1951 | Thème varié | piano | | | sc. |
| 152 | 1951–52 | Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël O magnum mysteriumQuem vidistis pastores diciteVidentes stellamHodie Christus natus est | choral | 4-part choir | | sc. · p. 417–419 |
| 153 | 1952 | Matelote provençale | orchestral | | | part of the colleborative La guirlande de Campra |
| 154 | 1952 | Ave verum corpus | choral | 3-part women's chorus | | sc. |
| 155 | 1952 | Capriccio | piano | 2 pianos | | after Le Bal masqué FP 60, dedicated to Samuel Barber |
| 156 | 1953 | Sonate for two pianos | piano | | | |
| 157 | 1954 | Parisiana Jouer du bugleVous n'écrivez plus? | vocal | voicepiano | Jacob | sc. |
| 158 | 1954 | Rosemonde | vocal | voicepiano | Apollinaire | sc. |
| 159 | 1956 | Dialogues of the Carmelites | stage (opera) | soloistschoirorchestra | Georges Bernanos | sc. |
| 160 | 1954 | Bucolique | orchestral | | | part of the collaborative Variations sur le nom de Marguerite Long |
| 161 | 1956 | Le Travail du peintre Pablo PicassoMarc ChagallGeorges BraqueJuan GrisPaul KleeJoan MiróJacques Villon | vocal | voicepiano | Éluard | |
| 162 | 1956 | Two mélodies "La Souris""Nuage" | vocal | voicepiano | 1: Apollinaire, 2: Laurence de Beylié | |
| 163 | 1956 | Dernier Poème | vocal | voicepiano | Desnos | sc. |
| 164 | 1956–57 | Flute Sonata | chamber | | | sc. |
| 165 | 1957 | Ave Maria | | | | lost or destroyed |
| 166 | 1957 | Bassoon Sonata | chamber | | | lost or destroyed |
| 167 | 1956 | Vive Nadia | vocal | voicepiano | | homage to Nadia Boulanger |
| 168 | 1957 | Élégie pour cor et piano | chamber | | | homage to Dennis Brain |
| 169 | 1956 | Une chanson de porcelaine | vocal | voicepiano | Éluard | |
| 170 | 1958 | Improvisation 13–14 | piano | | | sc. |
| 171 | 1958 | La voix humaine | stage (opera) | sopranoorchestra | Cocteau | sc. |
| 172 | 1957–59 | Laudes de saint Antoine de Padoue O JesuO ProlesLaus RegiSi quaeris | choral | 3-part men's choir | | sc. |
| 173 | 1958–59 | Novelette | piano | | | sc. |
| 174 | 1959 | Fancy | vocal | voicepiano | after Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice | sc. |
| 175 | 1959 | Elegy for 2 pianos | piano | | | homage to Marguerite de Polignac (called Marie-Blanche) · sc. |
| 176 | 1959 | Improvisation 15 | piano | | | homage to Édith Piaf · sc. |
| 177 | 1959 | Gloria | choral | sopranochoirorchestra | | sc. |
| 178 | 1960 | La Courte Paille Le SommeilQuelle aventure!La Reine de cœurBa, be, bi, bo, buLes Anges musiciensLe CarafonLune d’avril | vocal | voicepiano | Maurice Carême | |
| 179 | 1960 | Sarabande for guitar | chamber | | | dedicated to Ida Presti · sc. |
| 180 | 1961 | La Dame de Monte-Carlo | vocal | voice (soprano)piano | Cocteau | |
| 181 | 1961 | Sept répons des ténèbres | choral | voicepiano | | sc. |
| 182 | 1961 | Nos souvenirs qui chantent | vocal | voicepiano | Tatry | |
| 183 | 1962 | Renaud et Armide | stage (incidental) | | | incidental music for Cocteau's 1943 play |
| 184 | 1962 | Clarinet Sonata | chamber | | | sc. |
| 185 | 1962 | Oboe Sonata | chamber | | | sc. |
| ?? | 1950 | Ce siècle a cinquante ans | film | orchestra | | music for the documentary directed by Denise Batcheff, Roland Tual and Werner Malbran [de], composed in collaboration with Auric, Henri Sauguet and Jean Wiener |

## List of works by genre
### Stage works
#### Ballet

* Les mariés de la tour Eiffel, ballet (1921; a collaborative work by all the members of Les Six except Louis Durey); Poulenc's contributions, Discours du General (Polka) and La Baigneuse de Trouville are listed as FP 23 in Schmidt's Poulenc catalog.
* Les biches, ballet (1922/23), FP 36
* Pastourelle (1927; for the children's ballet L'éventail de Jeanne, to which ten French composers each contributed a dance; this excerpt became better known in its piano transcription), FP 45
* Les animaux modèles, ballet (1941), FP 111

#### Opera

* Les mamelles de Tirésias, opera (1947), FP 125
* Dialogues of the Carmelites, opera (1957) Composed 1953–56, FP 159
* La voix humaine, monodrama (1959), FP 171

### Orchestral

* Sinfonietta, FP 141 (1947)
* "Matelote provençale", variation for La guirlande de Campra, FP 153 (1952)
* "Bucolique" for Variations sur le nom de Marguerite Long, FP 160 (1954)

#### Concertante

* Concert champêtre, for harpsichord and orchestra, (1927–1928), FP 49
* Aubade, a "Concerto choréographique" for piano and 18 instruments, FP 51 (1929)
* Concerto for two pianos and orchestra in D minor (1932), FP 61
* Concerto for organ, strings and timpani in G minor (1938), FP 93
* Concerto for piano and orchestra (1949) FP 146

### Vocal/choral orchestral

* Le bal Masqué, secular cantata on poems by Max Jacob (Baritone or mezzo soprano, ensemble) (1932), FP 60
* Sécheresses (SATB, orchestra) (1939), FP 90
* Litanies à la Vierge Noire (SSA, org) (1936), orchestrated (1947), FP 82
* Stabat Mater (Soprano solo, SATB divisi, orchestra) (1950), FP 148
* Gloria (Soprano solo, SATB divisi, orchestra) (1959), FP 177
* La dame de Monte-Carlo (Soprano solo, orchestra) (1961), FP 180
* Sept répons des ténèbres (Child Soprano, Men's Chorus, Children's Chorus, orchestra) (1961–62), FP 181

### Chamber/Instrumental

* Rapsodie nègre, for flute, clarinet, string quartet, baritone and piano, FP 3 (1917)
* Sonata for two clarinets, FP 7 (1918/1945)
* Trois mouvements perpétuels for 9 instruments, FP 14 (1946)
* Sonata for clarinet and bassoon, FP 32 (1922/1945)
* Sonata for horn, trumpet and trombone, FP 33 (1922/1945)
* Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano, FP 43 (1926)
* Bagatelle in D minor for violin and piano, FP 60c (1932)
* Villanelle for pipe (pipeau) and piano, FP 74 (1934)
* Suite française for 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, percussion and harpsichord, FP 80 (1935)
* Sextet for piano and wind quintet, FP 100 (1932–9)
* Un joueur de flûte berce les ruines, for flute (1942)
* Violin Sonata, FP 119 (1942–3/1949)
* L'Invitation au Chateau, FP 138 (1947)
* Cello Sonata, FP 143 (1940–48)
* Flute Sonata, FP 164 (1956–7)
* Élégie for horn and piano, FP 168 (1957) In memory of Dennis Brain
* Sarabande for guitar, FP 179 (1960)
* Clarinet Sonata, FP 184 (1962)
* Oboe Sonata, FP 185 (1962)

### Piano
#### Piano four hands

* Sonata for piano, 4 hands, FP 8

#### Two pianos

* Sonata for 2 pianos, FP 156
* L'embarquement pour Cythère, valse-musette for 2 pianos (from film, Le voyage en Amérique), FP 150
* Élégie (en accords alternés), for 2 pianos, FP 175
* Capriccio for 2 pianos (after Le bal Masqué), FP 155

### Choral

* Chanson à boire (TTBB) (1922), FP 31
* Sept chansons (SATB) (1936), FP 81
* Litanies à la vierge noire (SSA, org) (1936), orchestrated (1947), FP 82
* Les Petites voix (SSA a cappella) (1936) FP 83 (Madeleine Ley) (I. La Petite Fille sage; II. Le Chien perdu; III. En rentrant de l'école; IV. Le Petit garçon malade; V. Le Hérisson)
* Mass in G (SATB) (1937), FP 89
* Sécheresses (chorus, orchestra) (1937), FP 90
* Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence (SATB): "Vinea mea electa", (1938); "Tenebrae factae sunt", (1938); "Tristis est anima mea", (1938); "Timor et tremor", (1939), FP 97
* Exultate Deo (SATB) (1941), FP 109
* Salve Regina (SATB) (1941), FP 110
* Figure humaine (12 voices) (1943), FP 120
* Un soir de neige (6 voices) (1944), FP 126
* Chansons françaises: "Margoton va t'a l'iau", (SATB)(1945); "La belle se sied au pied de la tour" (SATBarB) (1945); "Pilons l'orge" (SATBarB) (1945); "Clic, clac, dansez sabots" (TBB) (1945); "C'est la petit' fill' du prince" (SATBarB) (1946); "La belle si nous étions" (TBB) (1946); "Ah! Mon beau laboureur" (SATB) (1945); "Les tisserands" (SATBarB) (1946), FP 130
* Quatre petites prières de saint François d’Assise (Men's chorus) (1948), FP 142
* Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël (Mixed chorus): "O magnum mysterium" (1952); "Quem vidistis pastores?" (1951); "Videntes stellam" (1951); "Hodie Christus natus est" (1952), FP 152
* Ave verum corpus (SMezA) (1952), FP 154
* Laudes de Saint Antoine de Padoue (Men's Chorus): "O Jésu perpetua lux" (1957); "O proles hispaniae" (1958); "Laus regi plena gaudio" (1959); "Si quaeris" (1959), FP 172

### Vocal

* Rapsodie nègre: see Chamber/Instrumental, above.
* Toréador chanson hispano-italienne (poem by Jean Cocteau) (1918, revised 1932) FP 11
* Le Bestiaire, ou le Cortège d'Orphée pour Baryton et Orchestre de Chambre, FP 15a (poems by Apollinaire) (I: Le dromadaire II: La chèvre du Thibet III: La sauterelle IV: Le dauphin V: L'écrevisse VI: La carpe) (1918–1919)
* Le Bestiaire, ou le Cortège d'Orphée pour Baryton et Piano, Trois Melodies Inedites (VII La Colombe, VIII Le Serpent, IX La Puce), FP 15b
* Cinq poèmes de Max Jacob (I:"Chanson Bretonne" II:"Cimetière" III:"La petite servante" IV:"Berceuse" V:"Souric et Mouric") (1931), FP 52
* Miroirs Brûlants (2 Poems by Paul Eluard. I:"Tu vois le feu du soir" II:"Je nommerai ton front") (1938), FP 98
* Poèmes de Ronsard (I:"Attributs", II: "Le tombeau", III: "Ballet", IV: "Je n'ai plus les os", V: "À son page") (1925), FP 38
* Chansons Gaillardes (anonymous 17th-century texts, I:"La Maîtresse volage", II: "Chanson à boire", III: "Madrigal", IV: "Invocation aux Parques", V: "Couplets bachiques", VI: "L'Offrande", VII: "La Belle Jeunesse", VIII: "Sérénade") (1925–1926), FP 42
* Quatre airs chantés (I:"Air romantique", II: "Air champêtre", III: "Air grave", IV: "Air vif") (1927–28), FP 46
* Quatre poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire (1931, FP 58) for voice and piano (I. L'Anguille; II. Carte postale; III. Avant le cinéma; IV. 1904)
* A sa guitare (poem by Pierre de Ronsard) (1935), FP 79
* Tel jour telle nuit (poems by Paul Éluard), I: "Bonne journée", II: "Une ruine coquille vide", III. "Le front comme un drapeau perdu", IV. "Une roulotte couverte en tuiles", V. "A toutes brides", VI. "Une herbe pauvre", VII. "Je n'ai envie que de t'aimer", VIII. "Figure de force brûlante et farouche", IX. "Nous avons fait la nuit" (1936–1937), FP 86
* Le portrait (poem by Colette) (1937), FP 92
* Priez pour paix (poem by Charles d'Orléans) (1938), FP 95
* La grenouillère (poem by Apollinaire) (1938), FP 96
* Deux poèmes d'Apollinaire (poems by Apollinaire: I: "Dans le jardin d'Anna", II: "Allons plus vite") (1939), FP 94
* Bleuet (poem by Apollinaire) (1939), FP 102
* Fiançailles pour rire (poems by Louise de Vilmorin: I: "La Dame d'André", II: "Dans l'herbe", III: "Il vole", IV: "Mon cadavre est doux comme un gant", V: "Violon", VI: "Fleurs") (1939), FP 101
* Banalités (poems by Apollinaire: I: "Chanson d'Orkenise", II: "Hôtel", III: "Fagnes de Wallonie", IV: "Voyage à Paris", V: "Sanglots") (1940), FP 107
* "Les Chemins de l'amour" (originally written as part of the incidental music for Jean Anouilh's Léocadia (1940); the remainder of the Léocadia music is lost.), FP 106
* Chansons villageoises (I: "Chanson du clair tamis", II: "Les gars qui vont à la fête", III: "C'est le joli printemps", IV: "Le mendiant", V: "Chanson de la fille frivole", VI: "Le retour du sergent"), FP 117 (1942)
* Deux poèmes de Louis Aragon (I: "C", II: "Fêtes galantes") (1943), FP 122
* Métamorphoses (1943) FP 121 for voice and piano (Louise de Vilmorin) (I. Reine des mouettes; II. C'est ainsi que tu es; III. Paganini)
* L'Histoire de Babar, le petit éléphant for Piano and Narrator (1940 – orchestrated by Jean Françaix 1945), FP 142
* Deux poèmes d'Apollinaire (I: "Montparnasse", II: "Hyde Park") (1941–1945), FP 127
* Deux poèmes d'Apollinaire (I: "Le pont", II: "Un poème") (1946), FP 131
* Paul et Virginie (poem by Raymond Radiguet) (1946), FP 132
* Le disparu (poem by Robert Desnos) (1946), FP 134
* Calligrammes (Guillaume Apollinaire): I. L'Espionne; II. Mutation; III. Vers le Sud; IV. Il pleut; V. La Grâce exilée; VI. Aussi bien que les cigales; VII. Voyage (1948), FP 140
* La Fraîcheur et le feu (poems by Paul Éluard), I: "Rayon des yeux", II: "Le matin les branches attisent", III: "Tout disparut", IV: "Dans les ténèbres du jardin", V: "Unis la fraîcheur et le feu", VI: "Homme au sourire tendre", VII: "La grande rivière qui va" (1950), FP 147
* Rosemonde (poem by Apollinaire) (1954), FP 158
* Parisiana (poems by Max Jacob: I: "Jouer du Bugle", II: "Vous n'écrivez plus?") (1954), FP 157
* Le travail du peintre (poems by Paul Éluard), I: "Pablo Picasso", II: "Marc Chagall", III: "Georges Braques", IV: "Juan Gris", V: "Paul Klee", VI: "Joan Miro", VII: "Jacques Villon" (1956), FP 161
* Deux mélodies (I: "La Souris" (Apollinaire), II: "Nuage" (Laurence de Beylié)) (1956), FP 162
* Dernier poème (poem by Robert Desnos) (1956), FP 163
* La Courte Paille (poems by Maurice Carême), I: "Le sommeil", II: "Quelle aventure!", III: "La reine de Coeur", IV: "Ba, be, bi, bo, bu", V: "Les anges musiciens", VI: "Le carafon", VII: "Lune d'Avril" (1960), FP 178